Lester Wright is outrunning Father Time and the contest.
The sprinter, 100 years younger, broke the sector checklist for his age crew within the males’s 100-meter on the Penn Relays in Philadelphia on Saturday. (Watch the FloTrack video beneath.)
“It was once lovely great so to do that at age 100,” Wright informed the Asbury Park Press. “Once I got here right here I used to be somewhat bit anxious, but if I noticed the gang and the whole lot I fell proper in with it.”
The centenarian won heat applause from the hundreds at Franklin Box who additionally had explanation why to cheer the go back of the venerable monitor meet after an endemic hiatus, NJ.com famous.
Wright’s box integrated runners 80 years previous and up, and was once gained through 84-year-old Bob Williamson.
However Wright’s time of 26.34 shattered the 100-104 age crew checklist in the past set through Donald Pellmann in 2015 at 26.99 seconds. Pellmann’s checklist nonetheless seemed at the USATF Masters International Document listing as of Monday morning, however Wright’s record-winning time was once ratified, in step with the Asbury Park Press.
In fact, a 100-year-old sprinting in any respect is headline-worthy.
“I suppose it’s actually one thing that you simply don’t ceaselessly listen about and it sort of feels love it could be rather novel if I will be able to get available in the market and actually carry out,” Wright, who grew to become 100 on Friday, informed ABC in New York.
Wright, a monitor megastar at Lengthy Department Prime Faculty in New Jersey within the Thirties who wed his teenager sweetheart Adele (yep, nonetheless married after 80 years), additionally has made nice strides in his group. He attended school at the GI invoice and opened the primary Black-owned dental lab within the space, production false enamel, in step with the Asbury Park Press.
Speedy-forward to the 5:00 mark for the race:
